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Peter Butler

@peter-butler.bsky.social

Earthquake!

#SFBA

January 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM

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Patrick Holland

@trickholland.bsky.social

I got a rare look at the labs Apple uses to test the iPhone 16’s audio & video. I also spoke with Apple engineers behind tools like Audio Mix & 4K 120fps slow-motion video. @cnet.com

www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/a-billion-pixels-a-second-i-got-a-rare-look-inside-apples-secret-iphone-16-camera-labs/

A Billion Pixels a Second: I Got a Rare Look Inside Apple's Secret iPhone 16 Camera Labs

Here's how Apple took the iPhone 16 Pro's video capture and playback to another level with 4K 120fps slow-mo recording, spatial audio and new Audio Mix editing tools.

www.cnet.com

December 30, 2024 at 6:55 PM

Clifford Colby

@cliffordcolby.bsky.social

Finally Wordle 1,290 1/6

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December 30, 2024 at 1:49 PM

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CNET

@cnet.com

Pssst! Anyone here? Because we are. 😉

Hello, Bluesky! 🦋

November 27, 2024 at 5:59 PM

Clifford Colby

@cliffordcolby.bsky.social

@jeffcarlson.bsky.social Shows how to cross-post from Bluesky to Threads and other services www.cnet.com/news/social-...

With Bluesky Soaring, Here's How to Cross-Post to Threads and Other Social Services

Tired of posting the same content to multiple socials? Two apps make it easy.

www.cnet.com

November 22, 2024 at 1:50 PM

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Peter Butler

@peter-butler.bsky.social

I wrote up this service piece on "getting started with Bluesky" for CNET

I know y'all don't need the intro, but feel free to fact check me ;)

www.cnet.com/tech/service...

Ready to Join Bluesky? Here's How to Get Started

The alternative social network Bluesky is blowing up right now. Here's everything you need to know about posting, following, custom algorithmic feeds and moderation.

www.cnet.com

November 21, 2024 at 3:18 PM

Clifford Colby

@cliffordcolby.bsky.social

Want to bring your X followees with you to Bluesky? Heres how: www.cnet.com/tech/how-to-...

How to Find Your X Friends on Bluesky

Making the jump to Bluesky like millions of others? Find your Twitter followers with this nifty Chrome extension.

www.cnet.com

November 20, 2024 at 9:39 PM

Clifford Colby

@cliffordcolby.bsky.social

No idea why I have so many Google Cardboard VR viewers.

November 12, 2024 at 4:55 PM

Clifford Colby

@cliffordcolby.bsky.social

If you've not yet registered to vote, you still can today in almost half the states. www.cnet.com/news/politic...

Can You Still Register to Vote on Election Day? Yes, if You Live in One of These States

Nearly half of US states lets you register to vote as late as today so you can vote. Here's a breakdown of where.

www.cnet.com

November 5, 2024 at 5:53 PM

Clifford Colby

@cliffordcolby.bsky.social

I just got the notice that mail-in ballot been accepted. Here's how to check. www.cnet.com/news/how-do-...

How Do I Track My Ballot? The Details You Need In Every State

Getting the jitters over that mail-in ballot you sent? Take the edge off and track its progress.

www.cnet.com

October 27, 2024 at 1:49 PM

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Alexandra Petri

@petridishes.bsky.social

I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM

The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.)
We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I’m told!
Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! Go even further back, and the entire continent of North America was totally uninhabitable, and we were all spineless creatures who lived in the ocean, and certainly there were no Post subscribers.

But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them.
Let me tell you something. I am having a baby (It’s a boy!), and he is expected on Jan. 6, 2025 (It’s a … Proud Boy?). This is either slightly funny or not at all funny. This whole election, I have been lurching around, increasingly heavily pregnant, nauseated, unwieldy, full of the commingled hopes and terrors that come every time you are on the verge of introducing a new person to the world.
Well, that world will look very different, depending on the outcome of November’s election, and I care which world my kid gets born into. I also live here myself. And I happen to care about the people who are already here, in this world. Come to think of it, I have a lot of reasons for caring how the election goes. I think it should be obvious that this is not an election for sitting out.

The case for Donald Trump is “I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.”
“But maybe he’ll forget” is not enough to hang a country on!
Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy. But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it.

Trust is like that, too, as newspapers know.
I’m just a humor columnist. I only know what’s happening because our actual journalists are out there reporting, knowing that their editors have their backs, that there’s no one too powerful to report on, that we would never pull a punch out of fear. That’s what our readers deserve and expect: that we are saying what we really think, reporting what we really see; that if we think Trump should not return to the White House and Harris would make a fine president, we’re going to be able to say so.

That’s why I, the humor columnist, am endorsing Kamala Harris by myself!

October 26, 2024 at 10:50 PM

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Alexandra Petri

@petridishes.bsky.social

link here wapo.st/3UqHWRM

Opinion | It has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president

Isn’t this what a newspaper is supposed to do?

wapo.st

October 26, 2024 at 10:51 PM

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Cats of Yore

@catsofyore.bsky.social

If you know of any accounts I should add to my cat starter pack, please let me know! They must:
1. Be a cat account, meaning at least 90% visual cat content.
2. Consistently use ALT text.
3. Be active (posts at least a few times a week)
4. Post original content only.
go.bsky.app/J8yqxnN

October 24, 2024 at 6:05 PM